“The contemporary political landscape of Bangladesh reflects a complex interplay of crisis and transformation. The upheavals of 2024–2025, marked by student-led uprisings, the fall of a long-standing ruling establishment, and the formation of an interim government, have opened a new phase in state restructuring and democratic possibility. Yet the transition remains incomplete and contested.”
Introduction
The political history of Bangladesh is inseparably intertwined with the liberation (…)

Les agences anti-corruption ukrainiennes — le Bureau national anti-corruption d'Ukraine (NABU) et le Bureau spécialisé du procureur anti-corruption (SAPO) — ont révélé un système de pots-de-vin de 100 millions de dollars (92 millions d'euros) chez Energoatom, l'entreprise publique d'énergie nucléaire. Le cerveau présumé de l'affaire est Timur Mindich, le partenaire d'affaires de longue date du président Volodymyr Zelensky. Mindich s'est enfui en Israël quelques heures avant les perquisitions (…)

Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies—the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO)— have exposed a $100 million (€92m) kickback scheme at Energoatom, the state nuclear power company. The alleged ringleader is Timur Mindich, President Volodymyr Zelensky's longtime business partner. Mindich fled to Israel hours before raids on his Kyiv apartment, tipped off by an insider. The Justice Minister and Energy Minister resigned. (…)

Why Beijing targets labour organizing, feminist activism, and LGBT communities differently---and why solidarity work must synthesize these struggles rather than treating them as parallel tracks
Three moments reveal the Chinese state's differential repression strategy. December 2015: Guangdong police arrest over 20 labour activists and force closure of major labour NGOs including the Panyu Migrant Workers Centre. March 2015: Five feminist activists detained for planning International (…)

The former leader of Die Linke, who sought to change German politics with a “conservative left” party, is to step down from leading the movement that still bears her name. Chronicle of an electoral and strategic failure.
On 7 December, Sahra Wagenknecht will no longer head the party that still bears her name, the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW, Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance). The announcement came on 10 November in Berlin: the movement's founder will not stand for re-election at the congress (…)